Book Blog #76: The Girl Who Was On Fire edited by Leah Wilson

Title: The Girl Who Was On Fire
Author: Leah Wilson (editor)
# of Pages: 210 (paperback)
Genre: Non-fiction, Dystopian, Essays
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Synopsis: In The Girl Who Was on Fire, thirteen YA authors take you back to Panem with moving, dark, and funny pieces on Katniss, the Games, Gale and Peeta, reality TV, survival, and more. From the trilogy's darker themes of violence and social control to fashion and weaponry, the collection's exploration of the Hunger Games reveals exactly how rich, and how perilous, protagonist Katniss' world really is.

• How does the way the Games affect the brain explain Haymitch's drinking, Annie's distraction, and Wiress' speech problems?
• What does the rebellion have in common with the War on Terror?
• Why isn't the answer to "Peeta or Gale?" as interesting as the question itself?
• What should Panem have learned from the fates of other hedonistic societies throughout history and what can we?

The Girl Who Was On Fire covers all three books in the Hunger Games trilogy.

Review: It's not the book's fault that it got such a bad rating. It's mine.

I should never have picked up this book. It's a nonfiction, a collection of essays! Obviously not the book for me. I was hoping that I would be interested in a little insight of the book, that the authors who wrote the essays would make connections within the book (if that makes any sense). But the authors made a connection to today, thus rapidly making The Girl Who Was On Fire  outdated.

If you are AT ALL interested, read it NOW. I imagine in the next ten years younger readers will find this book somewhat lacking.